EDITOR, ETC: A REVIEW OF GENERAL SEMANTICS, Ed Tywoniak WEBMASTER, Ben Hauck

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

PRESIDENT, Martin H. Levinson VICE-PRESIDENT, Corey Anton TREASURER, Jacqueline J. Rudig

SECRETARY, Vanessa Biard-Schaeffer

George Barenholtz Eva Berger

Kristene Doyle Allen Flagg

Thom Gencarelli Ben Hauck

Dominic Heffer Prafulla Kar Lance Strate Ed Tywoniak

 

AKML Dinner/Weekend Symposium 2015 Princeton Club

15 West 43 Street New York City

Friday, October 2

6:00-6:30 PM Registration, Happy Hour, Cash Bar 6:30-8:00 PM AKML Dinner and Awards Presentations 8:00 PM The Sixty-Third Annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture:

The Internet is Not the Answer Andrew Keen

 

THE ALFRED KORZYBSKI MEMORIAL LECTURERS

2015 Andrew Keen 2014 Jack El-Hai 2013 Terrence W. Deacon 2012 Shawn Lawrence Otto

2011 Sherry Turkle 2010 Deborah Tannen 2009 Mary Catherine Bateson 2008 Douglas Rushkoff 2007 Leonard Shlain, M.D. 2006 Renee Hobbs 2005 Robert L. Carneiro 2003 Sanford I. Berman 2002 J. Allan Hobson, M.D. 2001 Lou Marinoff 2000 Robert P. Pula 1999 Ellen J. Langer 1998 Theodore R. Sizer 1997 Robert Anton Wilson 1996 Mihaly Csikszenthmihalyi 1995 Nicholas Johnson 1994 Lotfi A. Zadeh 1993 William Lutz 1992 Steve Allen 1991 Albert Ellis 1990 Warren M. Robbins

1989 William V. Haney 1988 Jerome Bruner 1987 Richard W. Paul 1986 George F.F. Lombard 1985 Russell Meyers, M.D. 1984 Karl H. Pribram 1983 Allen Walker Read 1982 Robert R. Blake 1981 Thomas Sebeok 1980 Barbara Morgan 1979 Don Fabun 1978 Elwood Murray 1977 Ben Bova 1976 Roger W. Wescott 1975 Harley C. Shands, M.D. 1974 Kenneth G. Johnson

Neil Postman

1973 J. Samuel Bois Elton S. Carter

Walter Probert

1972 George Steiner 1971 Henry Margenau 1970 Gregory Bateson

1969 Lancelot Law Whyte 1968 Alastair M. Taylor 1967 J. Bronowski 1966 Alvin M. Weinberg 1965 Henry Lee Smith, Jr. 1964 Joost A. M. Meerloo, M.D. 1963 Henri Laborit, M.D. 1962 Harold G. Cassidy 1961 Robert R. Blake 1960 Warren S. McCulloch, M.D. 1959 Charles M. Pomerat

William J. Fry James A. Van Allen

1958 Russell Meyers, M.D. 1957 Abraham Maslow 1956 Clyde Kluckhohn 1955 R. Buckminster Fuller 1954 F. S. C. Northrop 1953 F. J. Roethlisberger 1952 William Vogt

M.F. Ashley Montagu

 

 

 

The  Trustees  of  the  Institute  of  General  Semantics  

Proudly  Present  the    

2015  

J.  Talbot  Winchell  Award  to  

Jacqueline  Rudig  

and  

George  Barenholtz  

In  Recognition  of  their    

Indispensable  Contributions,    

Accomplishments,  and  Time-­‐Binding  Efforts  in  

Service  to  

the  Field  of  General  Semantics  

 

October  2,  2015  

 

 

 

 

 

The  Trustees  of  the  Institute  of  General  Semantics  

Proudly  Present  

The  2015  Samuel  I.  Hayakawa  Book  Prize  to  

 

Sherry  Turkle  

 

for  

Alone  Together:  Why  We  Expect  More  from  Technology  

and  Less  from  Each  Other  

 

October  2,  2015  

 

 

 

 

Saturday, October 3

8:00-9:00 AM Registration and Breakfast 9:00-10:15 AM Communication Outlooks Moderator: Martin H. Levinson Richard L. Lanigan’s Semiotic Phenomenology: On Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic Synergism Corey Anton—Grand Valley State University Codes of Conduct: Aristotelian and Non-Aristotelian Ways of Speaking about Ethics Jonathan Slater—SUNY Plattsburgh Generally Thinking About Systems in General Ed Tywoniak—Saint Mary’s College of California 10:15-10:45 AM Satire in the Global Village Dan Geddes—Editor, The Satirist 10:45-11:00 AM Refreshment Break 11:00-12:15 PM Maps and Territories Moderator: Corey Anton General Semantics and Spirituality: An Intimate, Unorthodox Relationship Daniel DeLoma—Independent Scholar Exercising my right to wait for the light armed with general semantics insights to illuminate reality and its possibilities Michael Fandal—Retired New York City Police Officer The Unreality of the Two-Valued Orientation in Everyday Life and a Few Other Examples of “Unreal Language” Gary H. Mayer—Stephen F. Austin State University 12:15-1:45 PM Lunch 1:45-3:00 PM Time-Binding Perspectives Moderator: Jacqueline Rudig The Touching Interface of the Cosmos Lance Strate—Fordham University Religion as a Necessary Engine of Space Travel Paul Levinson—Fordham University Modern Space, Postmodern Space.....Where was I? Paul Lippert—East Stroudsburg University 3:00-3:30 PM The Humanizing of Medicine through General Semantics Eva Berger—College of Management Academic Studies (Rishon Letzion, Israel) Isaac Berger—Former head of Pediatric Ambulatory Services. Meir Medical Center Kfar Saba, Israel 3:30-3:45 PM Refreshment Break 3:45-5:15 PM Theory and Practice Moderator: Martin H. Levinson “The Fact of the Matter” Martin H. Levinson—Institute of General Semantics

 

Language and Reality of Outcomes: Did I Make the Right Decision? Barry Chase—Chase Dental SleepCare: St. Joseph’s Hospital, Bethpage, NY Circularity of Oral Cultures Eugene Marlow—Baruch College (CUNY) Adding Value by Flipping the Phrase: Reversing Positive and Negative Language to Counterbalance an Inverted Linguistic Bias Richard Fiordo—University of North Dakota

Sunday, October 4

8:00-9:00 AM Breakfast

9:00-10:30 AM A GS Potpourri Moderator: Jacqueline Rudig Words Will Have Power Over Us . . . If We Do Not Use Our Power Over Words Milton Dawes—Institute of General Semantics (Montreal, Canada) Language and Reality Dom Heffer—Artist (Great Britain) On the Limits of Language Zhenbin Sun—Farleigh Dickinson University General Semantics and Buddhist Philosophy-and-Practice within the Landscape of Cognitive and Contemplative Sciences Wolfgang Lukas—University of Innsbruck (Austria) 10:30-10:45 AM Refreshment Break 10:45-11:15 AM Chants Rants Rattles and Trance: bill bissett and the KaBABEListics of Acoustic Space Adeena Karasick—Pratt Institute 11:15-11:45 AM Final Drum Beat . . . A Rhythmic Illustration of “The principle of ‘multi- dimensional structure’" Milton Dawes—Institute of General Semantics

 

About the Participants

Corey Anton, professor of communication studies at Grand Valley State University, is author of: Selfhood and Authenticity, Sources of Significance: Worldly Rejuvenation and Neo-Stoic Heroism, Communication Uncovered: General Semantics and Media Ecology; the editor of Valuation and Media Ecology: Ethics, Morals, and Laws; and co-editor (with Lance Strate), of Korzybski And…. He is past editor of the journal Explorations in Media Ecology and past-chair of the Semiotics and Communication Division of the National Communication Association. Anton is a Fellow of the International Communicology Institute and currently serves as both Vice-President of the Media Ecology Association and Vice-President of the Institute of General Semantics. Eva Berger teaches Communication at the College of Management Academic Studies in Rishon Letzion, Israel, where she has also served as Dean. She serves on numerous boards and public service organizations including the Women in the Picture Association (for the Advancement of Women in the Visual Arts), Israel Peace Initiative, Israel Press Council, and Institute of General Semantics. Her recent publications include “Combat Cuties, Photographs of Israeli Women Soldiers” and The Communication Panacea: Pediatrics and General Semantics. She has been a frequent commentator on the Israeli press on issues relating to media, language, gender, and culture. Dr. Berger holds a BA in Film and Television from Tel Aviv University and an MA and PhD in Media Ecology from New York University. Isaac Berger studied medicine at UNAM—National University of Mexico in Mexico City (1955-1961). He did his internship as well as his residency in Pediatrics at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago and was research fellow in neonatology there. In 1965, he returned to his country of origin—Mexico—where along with his private practice throughout the years, he was instructor of postgraduate courses in Pediatrics at Juarez Hospital; assistant lecturer in Pediatrics at UNAM (National University of Mexico); lecturer in Pediatrics at the School of Nursing as well as at the residency program of American British Cowdray Hospital in Mexico City; and he taught neonatology at Hospital Infantil Privado where he was physician in charge of Medical Education. In 1977 Dr. Berger moved with his family to Israel where he became Head of the Pediatric Outpatient Department of Meir General Hospital in the city of Kfar Saba, and later Head of Pediatric Ambulatory Services (including Emergency Room, Clinics, Day Hospital Unit, and Child Development Unit). He co-authored numerous articles and chapters in books. He retired from the hospital in 2003 and aside from his still active private practice he is medical advisor to a large child development center in Israel. Dr. Berger is married and has five daughters and nine grandchildren.

Barry Chase is a graduate of Georgetown University Dental School, Diplomate of the American Board of Dental Sleep Medicine and Academy of Clinical Sleep Disorders, on the Advisory Boards of the Respiratory Care and Sleep Technology Programs at Stony Brook University, Adjunct Professor Dental Sleep Medicine; Stony Brook University, member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the SleepUp Corp, Tel Aviv, Israel, and in the private practice of dental sleep medicine at St. Joseph’s Hospital on Long Island and in Manhattan. Milton Dawes (Ambassador at Large, Institute of General Semantics) has over the past 45 years, facilitated seminar-workshops to organizations, colleges, students, professionals, and others, in America, Canada, and Australia. He has presented papers at five International Conferences on general semantics. Dawes was presented the J. Talbot Winchell Award for Outstanding Contributions to General Semantics and also The Irving J. Lee Award for Excellence in Teaching General Semantics. Many of his articles on general semantics principles-and-practice (See miltondawes.com) have been published in ETC, the IGS interdisciplinary quarterly. Dawes draws on a wide range of skills and experiences from his diverse interests to enliven his teaching. These include being a former member of: The National Dance Theater of Jamaica, a 60’s rock and roll band, The Jamaica Folk Singers, and the "Jamaica Pistol Team" to the Pan American Games, Winnipeg, Canada (1967). He also teaches African rhythms and is one of the

 

seven who started the "Tam Tam" (African drumming) on Mount Royal in Montreal Canada. He was a Mr. Jamaica Body Building contestant. Daniel DeLoma is a poet and artistic producer originally from Bridgeport, Connecticut. His first collection of poetry, The December Manifestos, was published in 2013 and his second collection, Neon Throne, is set to premiere this fall. In the past, Daniel has served as the Director & General Manager of the Queens Symphony Orchestra and Artistic Manager of the Quick Center for the Arts in Fairfield, Connecticut. He is the co-founder of Galleria de la Libertad – The Imagine Gallery, a gallery for free expression scheduled to open in Queens, New York in the early months of 2016 and in Manizales, Colombia in late 2016. Daniel also founded the Sunday Salon series which held bi-weekly events in Boston and Montreal from 2008 to 2014. The series will soon be at home at The Imagine Gallery in New York City. Daniel studied Philosophy at Fairfield University and has received multiple honors for his work in poetry and the arts. Michael Fandal (BA Hunter College, 1971) discovered general semantics at Hunter College. As a young police officer, he attended a GS workshop led by Allen Flagg and used GS formulations as a crime fighter, public school teacher, and Ernest Desire the Clown, a character he cooked up to promote an earnest desire to curb crime. He has run ten marathons and a few short triathlons. He has run for political office, hosted a public access TV show, and clowned in the Macy's Thanksgiving, Coney Island Mermaid, and Village Halloween Parades. He was featured by Ripley's Believe It or Not as the “Cop Who's a Clown” and gave a talk at the National Shomrim Society on “Laughter and Law-enforcement/Partners in Crime-Fighting and Stress Reduction.” He is nearly done writing a book about a clown who strolls the ‘hood to make all feel good. Professional affiliations include SAG-AFTRA, Mystery Writers of America, and the NYPD Shomrim Society. Richard Fiordo is a Professor of Communication at the University of North Dakota. He holds a BA in English, an MA in Speech, and a PhD in Speech Communication. He studied general semantics in his MA program at San Francisco State College under S.I. Hayakawa and Richard Dettering. In 2011, he published Arguing in a Loud Whisper: A Civil Approach to Dispute Resolution—a text with a general semantics inclination. He is currently finishing a text from Linus Books titled Organizational Communication: An Exploratory Voyage and is writing another text for Linus Books on Narration as Communication. He has taught communication and related subjects at universities in the US and Canada. His email is: richard.fiordo@und.edu. Dan Geddes is the editor of The Satirist (www.thesatirist.com), one of the Internet’s longest running satire sites. He is the author of The Satirist: America's Most Critical Book, a collection of satire and fiction, including “A Modest Proposal to Convert Shopping Malls into Prisons” among many others. The Satirist has been cited in books, periodicals, dissertations, and university and high school curricula in many countries for its satire and criticism. Geddes's work has appeared in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, The Modern Word, The Amsterdam Weekly, and other publications. Geddes also performs stand-up comedy. Born in Cleveland, he now lives in Amsterdam. Dom Heffer is a professional artist based in Hull, East Yorkshire, England. His work explores the role of consciousness, self-reflexivity and play in the creative process, using painting as a basis for ideas that are often re-evaluated through other media. He has exhibited widely in the United Kingdom and abroad and is a member of the Institute of General Semantics board of trustees. For further details on Dom’s work, see www.ideasinthevoid.com. Adeena Karasick is a poet, cultural theorist, media ecologist, and author of seven books of poetry and poetics. Writing at the intersection of Conceptualism and neo-Fluxus performatics, her urban, Jewish feminist mashups have been described as “electricity in language” (Nicole Brossard) and noted for their

 

“cross-fertilization of punning and knowing, theatre and theory” (Charles Bernstein) “a twined virtuosity of mind and ear which leaves the reader deliciously lost in Karasick's signature ‘syllabic labyrinth’” (Craig Dworkin). Most recently is This Poem (Talonbooks, 2012) and The Medium is the Muse: Channeling Marshall McLuhan, co-edited with Lance Strate (NeoPoiesis Press, 2014). She teaches Literature, Critical Theory and Performance at Pratt Institute in New York. Martin H. Levinson is the president of the Institute of General Semantics, treasurer of the New York Society for General Semantics, and book editor of ETC: A Review of General Semantics. He is the author of four books and numerous articles on general semantics. He has authored a general semantics curriculum for middle school students and a general semantics continuing education study guide, which are both available for download at no cost at the Institute of General Semantics website (www.generalsemantics.org). He holds a PhD from NYU in Organizational and Administrative Studies and lives in Forest Hills, New York.

Paul Levinson, PhD, is Professor of Communication & Media Studies at Fordham University in NYC. His science fiction novels include The Silk Code (winner of Locus Award for Best First Science Fiction Novel of 1999, author’s cut ebook 2012), Borrowed Tides (2001), The Consciousness Plague (2002, 2013), The Pixel Eye (2003, 2014), The Plot To Save Socrates (2006, 2012), Unburning Alexandria (2013), and Chronica (2014)—the last three of which are also known as the Sierra Waters trilogy, and are historical as well as science fiction. His nonfiction books, including The Soft Edge (1997), Digital McLuhan (1999), Realspace (2003), Cellphone (2004), and New New Media (2009; 2nd edition, 2012), have been translated into twelve languages. He appears on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, the Discovery Channel, National Geographic, the History Channel, NPR, and numerous TV and radio programs. His 1972 LP, Twice Upon a Rhyme, was re-issued in 2010. He was President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, 1998-2001. He reviews television in his InfiniteRegress.tv blog, and was listed in The Chronicle of Higher Education's “Top 10 Academic Twitterers” in 2009. Paul Lippert is a graduate of the media ecology program at New York University and was the Managing Editor of ETC: A Review of General Semantics in the 1980s. He is currently Professor of Communication at East Stroudsburg University, where he teaches film. His main research interest is about the historical origins, intellectual and cultural nature, and possible future of modernity. Wolfgang Lukas is working on his PhD thesis in particle physics at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) and CERN (Switzerland). Following his interdisciplinary nature, curiosity and passion for understanding the human condition, he now also explores and regularly presents on the connections between cognitive science, contemplative traditions and general semantics. He thus begins to extend his research focus to the integration of these disciplines in theory-and-practice for the sake of our systematic disillusionment.

Eugene Marlow, PhD, is a senior member of the Department of Journalism at Baruch College (The City University of New York), where he teaches courses in media and culture. He has published 11 books and over 375 articles in academic and professional publications both in the United States and internationally. In 2014 he completed a book dealing with jazz in China entitled Jazz in the Land of the Dragon: From Dance Hall Music to Individual Freedom of Expression. This book serves as the basis for a documentary on the same subject currently in post-production. Dr. Marlow is a 2010 recipient of the James W. Carey award for journalism excellence from the Media Ecology Association for his numerous contributions to www.jazz.com.  

Gary H. Mayer, professor of mass communication at Stephen F. Austin State University (SFA) in Nacogdoches, Texas, grew up in Los Angeles and Houston. He earned BA degrees in journalism and psychology and a masters in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin and a doctorate in English (modern American literature) from Baylor University. In addition to SFA, he has taught at

 

Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, Tennessee, Troy University in Alabama, and Texas A&M University-Commerce. At SFA he teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses, including Media Writing, Editing in the Converged Newsroom, History of Journalism, Media Law, Media Ethics, and General Semantics. He has presented papers at numerous conferences and has published in journals such as the Southwestern Mass Communication Journal, ETC: A Review of General Semantics, Media Law Notes, and the Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter. He and his wife, Judy, live in Nacogdoches. Jacqueline Rudig is a long-time board member of both the Institute of General Semantics and the New York Society for General Semantics. She is this year's co-recipient of the J. Talbott Winchell award for outstanding service to the field of general semantics. Jackie lives, reads, writes, and teaches in Wauwatosa, WI. Jonathan Slater chairs the Department of Journalism and Public Relations at SUNY Plattsburgh, where he teaches a new course, Law and Ethics for Journalists and Public Relations Practitioners. Professor Slater’s professional career includes work in public relations, international advertising, economic development, public television and, of course, the classroom. He received his doctorate in media ecology from New York University. Professor Slater is a senior scholar and former fellow in SUNY Plattsburgh's Institute for Ethics in Public Life. He also serves as an ex-officio member of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) Board of Ethics and Professional Standards (BEPS).

Lance Strate is Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University and the 2015-2016 Harron Family Endowed Chair in Communication at Villanova University. A Trustee and former Executive Director of the Institute of General Semantics, he is a founder and Past President of the Media Ecology Association, and a Past President of the New York State Communication Association. Dr. Strate is the author of Echoes and Reflections: On Media Ecology as a Field of Study (2006), On the Binding Biases of Time and Other Essays on General Semantics and Media Ecology (2011), Amazing Ourselves to Death: Neil Postman's Brave New World Revisited (2014), and Thunder at Darwin Station (2015), and co-editor of several anthologies, including The Legacy of McLuhan (2005), Korzybski and… (2012), and The Medium is the Muse: Channeling Marshall McLuhan (2015). He is president of Congregation Adas Emuno of Leonia, New Jersey, has been an advisor for several autism advocacy groups, and is the recipient of the Media Ecology Association's 2013 Walter J. Ong Award for Career Achievement in Scholarship. Zhenbin Sun received his PhD in culture and communication from New York University and pursued postdoctoral research at Harvard University. He teaches media studies at Fairleigh Dickinson University. His publications include “Language, Discourse, and Praxis in Ancient China” (Springer, 2015) and “Reading Korzybski through Nietzsche” (ETC: A Review of General Semantics, 2012). Ed Tywoniak is professor of communication at Saint Mary's College of California and editor of ETC: A Review of General Semantics. Professor Tywoniak also serves on the boards of the Institute of General Semantics and the Media Ecology Association.

 

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

ETC: A Review of General Semantics, an interdisciplinary quarterly published by the Institute of General Semantics, welcomes submissions about the symbolic environments that humans spend their time in. We are interested in approaches to the nature of language, how we make what we call meaning, and how we can be better meaning-makers through an understanding of the relationships among symbols, mind, meaning, language, thought and culture.

Submissions fall into four main areas, keeping in mind, of course, that these categories are tentative, artificial and subject to revision. The categories are meant to express the broad range of possible contributions, not limit them. Contributors are not required to specify which area a particular piece falls into.

1. Articles about the symbolic environment, emerging or persisting metaphors, current or historical study of symbol use which advance the academic understanding of symbols and human behavior and culture.

2. Cases and observations of language use and misuse in politics, commerce, relationships, and self-talk which contribute to our personal understanding of the relationship of symbols and behavior.

3. Instructional schemata for educators to illustrate general semantics principles: lesson plans, activities, demonstrations, etc.

4. Poems, diagrams, short fiction, artwork, or other vehicles for thought which express or explain some ideal about symbols and behavior, such as maps and territories, abstractions, non-categorical thinking, extensional thinking, or the principle of etcetera.

Writer’s Guidelines for ETC: A Review of General Semantics

1. We accept manuscripts electronically, Microsoft Word is preferred; if you use another program, saving your file and in “rtf” format is usually effective. E-mail documents as attachments to editor-etc@generalsemantics.org. Contact us if there are technical issues.

2. Since we are an interdisciplinary community, writers are invited to use the citation and referencing style of their choice (APA, MLA, Chicago).

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